Ok, ever since I installed Debian (sarge) in June I've never once been able to get P2P software working (granted I didn't try very hard, until tonight). I worked my ass off trying to get gift (using giftui) working tonight and it just. won't. work! After reading thru their homepage I tried restarting the giftd daemon manually and this was the result:

Copyright (c) 2001-2003 giFT project (http://giftproject.org/)
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

NOTE:
There may be another giFT daemon running on this host. Check to see if the
interface port (1213) is currently in use by another process.

[20:40:44] *** Often times more information can be found in the log file or with the -v command line switch.

I checked, but it seems like nothing is using port 1213 and there is only one daemon running. Anyways when I startup giftUI it won't list any networks and it says "Connection to localhost:0 failed" and prompts me to enter a host and port number. Shouldn't giftUI automatically bring up the OpenFT and Gnutella networks???

Then I went to try Gnutella-GTK, but it won't connect either! It says in the top right that "Gnutella thinks you're firewalled" but I am SO not firewalled! I tried Apollon as well and that was no good either.

So what's wrong? I have all the most recent packages installed, I ran gift-setup correctly, and I've tried playing around with everything I can think of. Why won't these P2P programs just work out of the box (ie after apt-get install)? Thanks for any help/insight you can provide. :study:

hoe

11-01-2004 06:33 AM

LimeWireLinux.bin

Hi: I use Limewire and have used it in XP, Xandros and Mepis with no problems. I just use the basic download free and it always works and is easy to install. I just extract the downloaded file and type: sh LimeWireLinux.bin in the console after becoming su root.

Wayne

Lakota

11-01-2004 06:35 AM

I could not manage to get the p2p appz you mentioned connected on my box either. What I have had easy success with is Limewire. There is a Linux download on Limewire's website.

There actually are Debian packages of the "command line client" and the GUI.

Good luck.

drawhla

11-01-2004 07:52 AM

I use amule (edondeky-emule client), Bittornado (bittorrent), Nicotine (soulseek) and gtk-gnutella
I got them all with apt-get install and they all work perfectly

I never managed to get the gift stuff going (apollong, guiftui, gifttoxic, etc), never got the plugins to work

imroy

11-01-2004 01:14 PM

Firstly, you shouldn't need to start giftd manually. If you want to check what it's doing, look in the log file. I have mine going to ~/.giFT/giftd.log but I can't remember if that's the default. Look in ~/.giFT/giftd.conf to see where it's logging info.

Secondly, how did you check if something wasn't already using that port? I'd use fuser like this:
fuser -n tcp -v 1213

Lastly, are you sure you have giFTui configured properly? Is it looking to connect to localhost on port 1213? The error message says "localhost:0" which looks like it's trying to connect to port 0, not 1213.

gorzuate

11-01-2004 06:48 PM

When I run gtk-gnutella it also thinks I'm firewalled (when I'm not), but I can still connect and download stuff, so that's not the problem. As for what it is....yeah who knows.

R00ts

11-01-2004 09:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by imroy Lastly, are you sure you have giFTui configured properly? Is it looking to connect to localhost on port 1213? The error message says "localhost:0" which looks like it's trying to connect to port 0, not 1213.

Thanks! That did it! (Now why didn't I think of that? :o). I can see OpenFT and Gnutella on giftui now, but it just sits there and it shows no users. When I open Apollon it says "Connecting..." and its been "connecting" for over 10 minutes now. :rolleyes: So now I think I need to go play around with the plugins

Oh and by the way, thanks for the suggestions of other P2P clients everyone, but I really want to get gift to work. I've heard good things about Limewire, but I am distrusty of any piece of software that "encourages" you to buy a premium version. That usually means a ton of annoying advertisements and such (if not now, then later).

R00ts

11-02-2004 02:11 AM

For those trying to get their gift plugins to work, I just got the OpenFT one working. What you have to do is navigate to ~/.giFT/OpenFT and remove the 'nodes' file. This forces a new, updated nodes list to be downloaded from the network which will allow you to connect. I haven't figured out how to get Gnutella working yet though. If I figure it out I will post again.